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CXI. To The Same; On The Same [Clement Edmonds, on his Cæsars Commentaries observed, and translated].
Who Edmonds, reades thy book, and doth not seeWhat th'antique souldiers were, the moderne bee?
Wherein thou shew'st, how much the latter are
Beholding to this master of the war;
And that, in action, there is nothing new,
More, than to vary what our elders knew:
Which all, but ignorant Captaines, will confesse:
Nor to give Cæsar this, makes ours the lesse.
Yet thou, perhaps, shalt meet some tongues will grutch,
That to the world thou should'st reveale so much,
And thence, deprave thee, and thy work. To those
Cæsar stands up, as from his urne late rose,
By thy great helpe: and doth proclaime by mee,
They murder him again, that envy thee.
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